Research at Uppsala University
History of human antibiotic use written in the oral bacteria of wild brown bears
25 August 2021. An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of huma ...
How research can encourage us to cycle instead
19 August 2021. How do you get to work in the mornings? Transport currently accounts for 25 per cent of GHG emission ...
Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
13 August 2021. The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relat ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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Speaking to One´s Superiors: Petitions as cultural heritage and sources of knowledge
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2022-12-31
The purpose of this project is to enhance accessibility to and knowledge of a relatively little-used historical source — petitions — and to use this source to answer questions about people’s ways of supporting ...
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DECODE: Automatic Decoding of Historical Manuscripts
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Thousands of ciphers, enciphered historical manuscripts, are buried in libraries and archives. Our project will develop computer-aided tools for automatic and semi-automatic decoding of historical source ...
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DECRYPT: Dekryptering av historiska manuskript
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Research project from 2018-12-01 to 2024-11-30
Thousands of encrypted manuscripts are found in archives all over Europe, documents that are not yet available for historical research. Examples of such materials are diplomatic and military correspondence ...
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Discourse-Oriented Statistical Machine Translation
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2015-12-31
In the recent years, significant progress has been made in natural language processing and machine translation in particular. The launch of Google Translate is one example that demonstrates the growing ...
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Documentation of an endangered language: Kunashi
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
The project aims to provide a fuller documentation of Kunashi, a "definitely endangered" (UNESCO) unwritten and undescribed Tibeto-Burman language spoken in only one village - Malana - in the Kullu district ...
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Fictional prose and language change. The role of colloquialization in the history of Swedish 1830–1930
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Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
The project aims to investigate colloquialization in the history of Swedish (c. 1830—c. 1930) by exploring fictional prose. The term colloquialization refers to the incorporation of colloquial linguistic ...
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Patterns of Popularity: Towards a Holistic Understanding of Contemporary Bestselling Fiction
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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31
The purpose of this project is to make a holistic analysis of contemporary bestsellers by combining different methods (distant and close, inductive and deductive, probabilistic and historic-empiric), materials ...
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Himalayan linguistic prehistory in a new light
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Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Sino-Tibetan (ST) is one of the largest language families on earth, second only to Indo-European (IE) in number of speakers. However, when it comes to our basic facts about ST – how many languages there ...
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HistoCrypt 2018 - The 1st International Conference on Historical Cryptology
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Research project from 2018-06-18 to 2018-06-20
Thousands of encrypted manuscripts are found in libraries and archives all over Europe, documents that are not yet available for historical research. Examples of such materials are diplomatic and military ...
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Neural Pronoun Models for Machine Translation
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Pronouns are challenging for machine translation (MT) because their use variesbetween languages and because anaphoric pronouns are subject to long-distanceconstraints outside the standard unit of MT. The ...
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Typologically informed dependency parsing
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Research project from 2020-07-01 to 2023-06-30
Language technology is increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives. We rely on search engines, spell checkers, machine translation, etc. Access to such language technology is however very unequal across ...
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Universal Dependency Parsing
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Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Natural language processing plays an increasingly important role in our lives. Whenever we make use of search engines, voice interfaces, or online translation services, we rely on the capacity of computers ...
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Research spotlight: The coronavirus
New method for discovery of antiviral drugs
2 August 2021. The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for methods to identify new or repurposed dru ...
Helpline important for older people during the pandemic
8 July 2021. For many older individuals, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of daily anonymous contac ...
The national COVID-19 Data Portal turns one year old
3 June 2021. The national Swedish COVID-19 Data Portal was launched one year ago to support researchers in utilis ...
Lectures
Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.